title: [Knowledge of laws by students with hearing impairment: results from the GINKO-project].
abstract: Legislation for people with disabilities has also changed due to other changes in the law, especially due to the recent ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. These laws, in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with its inclusion of the right to equitable and universal access to education for people with disabilities and their implementation, are of central importance for students who are impaired. As part of the GINKO (the legislative effect laws have on the professional integration of those who are hard of hearing, people who have gone deaf and those who are deaf through communication and organization; promotion: BMAS) project, the following questions were also brought up for discussion and were investigated: to what extent hearing-impaired students are aware of legislation that benefits them, whether these laws will be implemented, and what factors have an impact on this legal knowledge or its implementation. Overall, 4,825 handicapped individuals with hearing impairments - including n=166 students - took part in the survey. The results of the evaluation of the group of hearing-impaired students indicate that many of them are not informed about laws important to them. It was also found that the knowledge of a law cannot be equated with its implementation. This survey also resulted in a resolve for the future, to demand information about legal options be reinforced, and to adjust this information to fit the needs of specific target groups, e.g. this information could be disseminated through sign language films. On the other hand, these results also apply to higher education, for these institutions to create learning conditions where existing regulatory design options for students with disabilities are implemented, thereby affording students an equal opportunity to participate in higher education.
authors.affiliation: Forschungsstelle zur Rehabilitation von Menschen mit kommunikativer Behinderung (FST) an der Martin-Luther--Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schlenker-Schulte
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schulte
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002961:Civil Rights; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008297:Male; D028701:Patient Rights; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult